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shake
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shake
1. an instance of shaking dice before casting
2. Music another word for trill
3. a dance, popular in the 1960s, in which the body is shaken convulsively in time to the beat
4. an informal name for earthquake

shake [shāk]
(materials)
Separation between adjoining layers of wood, due to causes other than drying.
A thick hand-cut shingle.


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My students line up so we can shake hands and say goodbye.
George Washington believed it beneath him to shake hands.
ONE of THE most HAUNTING moments in Peter Raymont's latest film Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Romeo Dallaire is in an old church in Rwanda that now holds the skulls of hundreds of people who were brutally murdered during the 1994 genocide.
 
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